Associate Director, Technical at FHI360 NGO

Accountabilities:


Serves as the technical lead providing technical oversight and direction for the STRIDES project in Kenya.
Monitors technical delivery and ensures that the STRIDES project meets project work plan milestones and targets, and that all program activities are conducted in close coordination with the Government of Kenya (GoK) and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with GoK standards, protocols and policies, and United States Government policies and priorities.
Liaise with counterparts within the Kenya health system and other GoK structures at national and regional levels to ensure quality service delivery.
Provide or oversee technical capacity strengthening of project subrecipients for effective delivery of quality and sustainable life-saving interventions.
Ensures high quality technical deliverables, including work plans and annual reports are developed, submitted and approved on schedule and within budget parameters in collaboration with the Country Project Director and FHI 360 STRIDES headquarters team.
Organizes the STRIDES project activities ensuring completion of the project on schedule and within budget constraints.
Provides direction to ensure technical activities are compliant with donor requirements, GOK regulations and FHI 360's policies and procedures.
Responds to donor and GOK requests and questions on technical matters and ensures timely drafts and submissions of requests.
Manages and guides a team with training and developing process improvement initiatives to ensure compliance with FHI 360 and government standards.
Works closely with the Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor to provide technical management expertise with monitoring and evaluating STRIDES project and is involved in the decision making for technical issues on the project.
Supports performance management and professional development of direct reports, including ongoing feedback, coaching, and career support.
Designs, monitors, and evaluates activities regarding recruitment, orientation, and supervision of teams who lead these activities.
Supports capacity building and contributes to the overall strategic goals of STRIDES projects.
Trains a team on procedures and policies to achieve project and organizational goals.
Works with personnel or teams to design, monitor, and evaluate activities with recruitment, orientation, supervision of a team to complete project functions.
Provides technical oversight on one or more projects.
Contributes and provides support to overall strategic goals of various assigned projects.
Develop objectives that align with strategic goals and oversee STRIDES project for technical and compliance standards.
Performs other duties as assigned.


Applied Knowledge & Skills:


Comprehensive technical knowledge of theories, concepts, and practices with project management.
In depth understanding of infectious disease preparedness, prevention, detection, and outbreak response principles, strategies and technical approaches (including laboratory strengthening and surveillance, etc.).
In-depth familiarity with Kenya public health sector and donor-funded programs.
Demonstrated working knowledge of KenyaGoK health information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting and use of data.
Demonstrated ability to perform and/or understand complex data analyses, fluently present results of the analyzes and make recommendations based on findings.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
Demonstrated project and technical leadership.
Ability to motivate, influence and work well with others to achieve company goals.
Articulate, professional, and able to communicate in a clear, positive manner with clients and team.
Must be able to read, write and speak fluent English.


​​​​​​​Problem Solving & Impact:


Works on problems of complex scope that require analysis of situations and data of various factors.
Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Decisions made will generally have major implications on the management and operations of a project.


​​​​​​​Supervision Given/Received:


Manages a team to meet project and organizational goals.
Manages the budgets, methods, and strategies of the project.
Coordinates with the Project Director and FHI 360 home office to set budgets, goals, and develop procedures and training for project.
Recommends solutions to management on strategy, operational, and business decisionsthat affect the project.
Reports to the Project Director.


Education:


Master's degree or its International Equivalent Health or a related fields.
A Medical Degree (MBBS/MBChB or MD) with a Master's Degree is strongly preferred


Experience:


Typically requires 10+ years of relevant technical/project management experience in a specialized technical, product and/or service area (including 3+ years of leadership and line management skills).
Experience with design and implementation of innovative technical support to local entities and frontline service delivery teams.